Improvement in game-counters



UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VvJOHN H. DASEY, or SoMERVILLn, MASSAQHUSETTS.

IMPRovl-:Mi-:NT' IN GAME-COUNTERS.

Specification forming part'of Letters Patent'No. 207,396, dated August 27, 1878; application iiled January 22, 1878.

To alluhonz @t mag/concern.'- Be it knownthat I, JOHN Ii. DASEX, of Somer Alle, in'` the county of VMiddlesex and State of Massachusettrhave invented a new` and useful Improvement in Gaine-Counters, which improvemeutiis fully set forth in the fol` lowing specification and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan viewiof my improved counter. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspouding parts. l f

The object of this invention is to provid an individual game-counter bymeans of which the number of games won and 'the number of points gained in a particular game may be indicated. It is not the intcntionsin this improaement to keep the record Vof a number of players, but of an individual player or side.

The nature of the invention consists in the peculiar arrangement-and combination of the parts, in order that the fingers or indicators may be kept from dipping or interfering with each other without complicating the device or rendering it undulyexpensive.

In the drawings, @represents a plate, usually of metal, and silver or nickel' plated, or otherwiseornamented,attached to ahlock,(usu ally of wood,) b,by means of screws c c, or in any othersuitable manner. d Vis a short bar, intol which are xed the spindles e e', which project downward through. the plate a. Attached-to the spindles e e', and swinging or revolving' around them after the fashion of clock-hands, are the fingers or' indicators f f Each indi;

cator has its 'own spindle, and entirely iudependent of the other. The indicator j', which points out the'nuinber of games won,

which in the case illustrated is 3, (among` the figures a",) is attached to the spindle e. The indicator f which points out the number of points gained in the progressing game, in this case l, (among the large figures a/,) is attached to the spindle e'. Thus it will be seen that the indicators or ngers cannot interfere with each other. Washers g g are placed between the indicators f f and the plate a to protect the latter. The indicators and the bar d are secured to the plate by means of the screw 71 which4 passes down through the bar d and plate af, Upon the end of this screw is a nut, 7c, and a spiral spring, Z, encircles 'thescrew between the nut It and the plate a.

By turning the nut 7;, and thus compressin?,` the' spring l, the indicators are pressed between thc washers g g and the bar d, thus preventing them from turning,` too freely, and holding them in'place when they have been set in any position. Of course a Suitable space is provided in the bloei; b for the screw 7a., nut k, spindles e e', 85o.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by vLetters Patent, is A In combination with the plate a., screw h,

nut la, and spring l, the straddling bar d,-

prorided with two spindles, e c', of a piece with 'said bar, and extending through the plate, for the purposeot' holding' the ugers f f and washers g g', all constructed and arranged ubstantial-ly as and forthe purpose herein set ortii.

' JOHN H. D ASEY. YVituesses:

HENRY W. WILLIAMS, JOHN E. .TRENNINQ 

